I'm a self-employed web designer & photographer since 1998. But that's all business and this blog is all about my crafty hobbies! Throughout this blog you will find things like watercolor painting, paper crafting, stamping, card-making, copics, my own hand drawn digital stamps, beading, cooking, gardening, photography, photoshop, the antics of my 4 legged children, Emma & Francie!

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FAQ: This blog is just for fun. I am a self-employeed web designer and photographer, please visit TiffanyRichards.com for inquiries. Around the garden I use a small point and shoot Canon. I also use a Canon D40 with a wide variety of lenses, lighting and accessories. I'm addicted to Lightroom, Photoshop and Dreamweaver. I have a 17" Dell XPS m1710 and 3 other Dell laptops. A Dell 24" monitor. 2 Epson printers, one of which is a wide format. HP scanner. Three external hard drives at 600gig each. Any Questions?
Okay, now, my crafting supplies include: Cricut Expression & 5 cartridges, Slice & 6 cartridges, Sizzix Big Kick, Bunches of Nestibilities and cuttlebug emobossing folders, 2 Xyron sticker makers, Tonic paper cutter, 279 copic markers, 100's of papers, stamps, punches, ribbons, embellishments, glitter, embossing powders, and too much more to mention! Feel free to ask me any questions about anything you've seen on my blog!

2. In a small bowl, combine the cookie crumbs, butter and sugar. Press onto the bottom of prepared pan. Tip: google ideas on materials to use on the bottom of your pan for easy removal of your cheesecake to place on you cake plate.

3. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Beat in the sour cream, buttermilk, cocoa and vanilla. Add eggs; beat on low speed just until combined. Stir in food coloring. Pour over crust. Place springform pan in a large baking pan; add 1 inch of hot water to this larger pan. Tip: This is called a 'water bath' and it prevents your cheesecake from splitting and cracking.

4. Bake at 325 for 60-70 minutes or until center is just set and top appears dull. Remove springform pan from water bath. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Carefully run a knife around the edge of the pan to loosen; cool 1 hour longer. Refrigerate overnight. Remove sides of pan.

5. For frosting, in a small bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Add confectioners' sugar and vanilla; beat until smooth. Frost top of cheesecake. Refrigerate until serving.
Yield: 16 servings

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Ha! I know this is really random kind of post, but sometimes I get excited and want to share some good news!

Sunday, December 04, 2011

You know how when you see a bottle of the prettiest glittery nail polish at the store....? Then you get it home, you shake it up really good and get yourself ready for some shiny sparkly sweetness for your nails? You get a really good helping on your brush and spread it over your nail? 1 stroke, 2 strokes, 3 strokes.... and then your like 'what the...?' Now you have on, basically, a clear polish with like 3 specks of glitter dust randomly appearing on your nail as if by accident? Like some dust from your craft table accidentally got into your clear nail polish? LOL

Well, I finally found some glitter nail polish that really looks just as good on your nails as it does in the bottle! Sally Hansen Gem Crush. This shade is called Big Money (2 coats). Perfect for New Year's Eve!! Hooray for products that live up to their advertising promises!

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

I feel so bad about the total lack of attention to my personal blog here! Been so super busy over at Tiffany Doodles. So, I thought I would do random posts from some of my personal photograph stash!!

I have been really into the HDR photography lately. For those of you who don't know; that means High Dynamic Range. You need a steady tripod for your camera to capture anywhere from 3 to 5 photos at different exposures, averaging about 2 stops between increments. Which means you take a really dark photo, a normal exposure and then one over-exposed. The purpose of this is to capture all of the information in the highlights, midtones, and shadows. Then you import all of these exposures into your photo editing software and through the magic of Photoshop and some plugins for your tone mapping you get something that looks like this!! Maybe one day I'll do a tutorial if you really want me too!!
Enjoy! More to come soon! Thanks for looking! Click to enlarge.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Welcome to Day 3 of our Tiffany Doodles Blog Hop! We hope you had a great time on the previous 2 days, and perhaps found some inspiration along the way!

In case you missed yesterday, click here to catch up from Day 1 and Day 2! Be sure to participate everyday by commenting on each post & following every blog to be eligible for all prizes.

Today is the last day of the hop! We hope you have enjoyed the tour!! In order to qualify for all prizes you must:

participate everyday

comment on every participants post

follow every participants blog

Special Note: Make sure that your Blog and Email are listed in your Blogger profile for notification purposes. If your email is not visible on your profile make sure it is easy to find on your blog. Thanks!

While your hopping keep in mind the SALE we are having this weekend at the store!! All Bird and Flower Digital stamps are on sale for 25% off! No coupon necessary, discount will be taken at the register. Your welcome! =) PS. Even more sales listed below!

By participating daily in our Blog Hop you will be eligible for prizes! Lots of prizes! Total Prizes valued at OVER $220!! All winners will be chosen randomly. Everyday we will chose 3 winners. Chosen from the main TD blog. Your participation on the other blogs will be verified prior to announcement. If you have won you will be notified by email, so make sure you email is easy to find either in your comment, your blogger profile, or on your blog. All winners will be announced on the blog after the hop is over. Prizes will be awarded as follows:

For my blog hop card I choose to use the Birdie Wings digi stamp. This is such a cute bird to color and also a fun one to paper piece. I did a little bit of stitching on this shabby chic patchwork card.

All papers in this card are from Basic Gray's June Bug series. I started by cutting my main red polka dot piece in 4.25" circle.

Then I punched 14 circles with my 1" circle punch!

Then I cut 3 circles of the same size to make my patches in the middle to be sewed on.

Then I die cut my yellow center piece.

I placed my 1" circles face down and used a plain piece of cardstock cut in a 4.25" circle as a base to glue my small circles onto. I layed it out like the pic below as perfectly as possible.

Then I held down the big circle and drew a circle around it completely on top of the little circles like below.

I drew this circle so that I would make sure I glued each one down evenly and in the correct alignment!

Then it would look perfect like below!

Next, I glued my red piece down in the center. I also cut my 3 patchwork circles into quarters and choose 4 pieces to use that looked decent together. I layed them out on the card to see how they would look!

Next, i colored my birdie with copics. Zoom pic to see colors used. I cut the birdie out with my scissors and then outlined any white edges with my black sharpie pen!

Thank you so much for joining us on this inspiring blog hop! It's all been for you ... the loyal fans! Please remember Tiffany Doodles when making all of your holiday cards! Your patronage is very much appreciated!! Good luck on winning the Grand Prize! All winners will be announced tomorrow (Mon)!!